There are a lot of weird anime fans I’ve encountered who seem to think that everyone is as familiar with anime as they are. I don’t get it. I’m a massive Trekkie, but I wouldn’t expect strangers that aren’t on a Star Trek forum or something to understand what I’m talking about when I discuss Rick Berman’s role in preventing queer characters from being a major presence on Star Trek shows until the kiss between Jadzia and another Trill host in the late 1990s being a microcosm of the television landscape of the 1980s and 1990s as a whole including the acceptability of queer women (such as Ellen) on TV vs. queer men… Because they have no idea what the fuck I’m talking about or who Rick Berman is or what a Jadzia could possibly be even if I could expand upon that and write a nice tight little essay.